Bottle-cap remover



Nov. 19, 1929. w sue Hem 1,736,519

BOTTLE CAP REuovEr Filed May 4, 1928 a JUHIJII mummy Afztorney Patented Nov. 19, 1929 WILLIA M BUGHOLTZ, F OTTERVILLE, ONTARIO, CANADA,

BOTTLE-GAP REMOVER Application filed May 4, 1928. Serial No. 275,246.

This present invention relates to new and useful improvements in a bottle cap remover and has for its primary object the provision of a device of simple andvinexpe'nsive construction and operation and which is composed of the minimum number of parts.

Another object of the invention resides in the provision of a bottle cap rem'over of the character stated which is constructed in such a manner that the cap may be readily removed from the bottle while pressing together the substantially parallel handles carrying the long and short co-operating aws.

A further object of the invention resides in the provision of a bottle cap remover of the character stated which includes a short curved jaw for engagement under the cap, at one side thereof and a co-operating long curved jaw for engagement on the top of the cap, at the diametrically opposite edge there of, so that the jaws co-operate to remove the cap, as the pivoted handles for the jaws are pressed together against the spring interposed therebetween, off from one side of the bottle and cap. a

A still further object of the invention resides in the provision of a bottle cap remover of the character stated in which the long curved aw is bifurcated and the short curved jaw is pivoted in and works through the bifurcated portion thereof, the upper handle for the short curved jaw being flattened and increased in width to correspond with the j lower handle carrying the long curved jaw,

so that the handles may be held securely in the hand while employing the device to remove the bottle cap.

To the accomplishment of these and related objects, as will become apparent as the description proceeds, my invention resides in the construction, combination and arrangement of the parts as shall be hereinafter 5 more fully described, illustrated in the ac- I is bad to the drawings forming a part .of this disclosure, wherein like characters indicate like parts throughout the several views.

In the drawings Figure 1 is an elevation of a conventional bottle and cap, showing the improved bottle cap remover in position for removing the cap from the bottle.

Figure 2is a plan of the bottle cap remover with the capengaged thereby, as shown in Figure 1.

Referring more in detail to the drawings, it is to be noted that the long jaw 6 is curved slightly and is bifurcated throughout its length and thus divided into two parallel jaw fingers 7 having angular seats 8 provided in their downturned free or working ends to receive the upper edge 'of the cap 9 on the bottle 10,. when engaging the bottle cap remover for removing the'cap 9. The wide flat lower handle 11 is extended rearwardly from the jaw 6 curved slightly in the reverse direction; the rear free end of the handle 11 being turned down.

Working through the bifurcated jaw 6, near the connection of the latter with the handle 11, and mounted on the transverse pivot 12, is the short lower jaw 13 which is directed downwardly and then curved forwardly and upwardly for engagement under the lower edge of the bottle cap 9, at a point diametrically opposite to that engaged by the jaw 6.

The jaw 13 is extended rearwardly from its upper end and flattened to form the wide flattened upper handle 14 aboveand substantially parallel with the lower handle 11. This upper handle 14 has its rear free end slightly turned upwardly. Thus, the slightly turned free ends of the handles 11 and 14 will serve to reduce to the minimum liability'of the operators hand slipping'off the outer or free ends of the handles 11 and 14, when the device is in use. A spring such as the reversely curved leaf spring 15 is employed to resiliently retain the handles 11 and 14 in their normally separated position and one end of the spring is secured to the inner face of one of the handles 11 and 14, as shown at 16, the free end of the spring 15 being turned so as to ride on the inner face ofthe other handle.

As the construction of the device has thus been described in detail, brief reference is now had to its use andmodus operandi: When it is desired to use the device for removing a bottle cap, the complete device is held in a plane at right angles to the longitudinal axis of the bottle 10 and the cap 9 thereon. The bifurcated long curved jaw 6 extended across the top of the cap 9 and the free or working ends of the fingers 7 thereof engaged with the upper edge of the cap 9. The free or working end of the short curved jaw 13 is engaged under the lower edge of the cap 9, at the near side thereof, then the handlesll and 14 are pressed together, against the action of the spring 15 to obtain a good grip on the cap 9 and loosen the same from the bottle 10. The cap 9 may then be readily removed from the bottle while still held firmly by the device, until it is desired to release and discharge the cap 9, by permitting separation of the handles 11 and 14 and the jaws 6 and 13; The operation of the .device in removing bottle caps is quick and positive, and does not-require the exercise of either skil or strength.

From the foregoing description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, it will be manifest that a bottle cap remover is provided that will fulfill all the necessary requirements of such a device, but as many changes could be made in the above description and many widely different embodiments of my invention constructed within the scope of the appended claim without departing from the spirit or scope thereof, it is in tended that all matters contained in the said accompanying speci cation and drawings shall be interpreted as illustrative and not in a limited sense.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is A bottle cap remover including a "pair of fiat elongated handles arranged in opposed relation; one of said handles having an ex-- tended and longitudinally curved bifurcated portion to form a pair of long jaws each terminating with a seat in its free end to receive the upper edge of the bottle cap with which the bottle cap remover is engaged; the other handle having a longitudinally curved narrow portion extending through and fulcrumed in the bifurcated portion of the first mentioned'handle; the extended end of the second mentioned handle being turned back upon itself to form a short jaw for en-' gagement with the opposite lower edge of the 'cap to co-operate with the first mentioned jaws in removing said cap and means carried by one of said handles and pressing on the other for resiliently retaining said handles and said jaws in unoperated position.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

WILLIAM BUCHOLTZ. [1 5.] 

